CMVMPortfolioManagementBoard

Purpose and Role

The College Portfolio Management Board (CPMB) is a subcommittee of the College Education Committee (CEC), with responsibility for oversight of the College education portfolio. This includes approval of new programmes in line with the University’s Programme and Course Approval and Management Policy and management of existing programmes.  In academic year 24/25, the University introduced a process of Portfolio Review, through which the College significantly streamlined its programme offering.  It is crucial that we actively manage our refined programme and course portfolio, ensuring it remains relevant, aligned with our research strengths, is able to meet market demand, and offers a world-leading student experience.  Active management of our programme portfolio is an essential pre-requisite to enable us to model the optimal size and shape of our student body and predict fee income with greater accuracy.

CPMB will have responsibility for College level academic scrutiny and approval for all taught programmes (credit bearing and non-credit bearing), all research degree programmes, and for all collaborative partnership agreements, (including approval of new partnership agreements and noting decisions to end partnerships). This includes approval of new programmes, major changes to programmes and closure of programmes.

CPMB will have responsibility for approval of decisions relating to ongoing health of programmes and consider recommendations for major changes and closure as appropriate.

Remit

CEC delegate authority to CPMB to make decisions on their behalf in relation to the following matters:

1. Programme approval for the College, in line with the UK Quality Code, as described in University Policy, the University’s Curriculum Framework and the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework.

   1. Approval of major changes to or closure of programmes, in accordance with the University’s Programme and Course Approval and Management policy.

   2. Making Endorsements for approval to APRC for proposals with elements outside the standard curriculum framework

   3. CPMB delegates authority to School Boards of Studies for the approval of course level changes, including new courses, in line with the UK Quality Code, as described in University Policy, the University’s Curriculum Framework, and the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework. College oversight will be maintained through an annual audit of BoS minutes and papers with a report submitted to the board at the last meeting of the academic year.

   4. Monitoring the health of programmes and proactively managing the overall College portfolio.

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